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OT - 4770 performance?

Similar studies have been done before and the conclusion is always the same. Having a higher percentage of the developers dress in black leads to better drivers.

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- the shader compiler for r600+ started off as more of a 1:1 IR-to-hardware translator than a real compiler, although recent work may have improved that a lot (haven't had time to look)

About two years ago I bought a Sapphire 4770, it looked really good on paper (still does) but the stock Fedora sw doesn't impress me particularly, are you able to say what is the state of open drivers for this card?

Perhaps someone could benchmark numerous configurations with different non-standard options (Unity on/off, vsync on/off, etc.) to determine how much each helps/hurts and what the real best-case framerate is?

Thanks for posting that -- I just got a 5770 but can't test it yet, and those benchmarks had me a bit worried.
Your framerates seem to be increasing with the resolution -- is that usual, or a sign of an error? Your screen resolution is listed as 1280x1024 -- if that's the monitor's limit, would it cause inaccurate results from the higher-resolution tests?

If the results are all right, though -- 58% of Catalyst* at 2560x1600 in OpenArena!

This comparison seems about right to me. I have this laptop that has both Intel Core i5-450M CPU/GPU and Radeon HD 5650 GPU. I have been using the latest git kernel/libdrm/mesa/ddx code ever since Evergreen support was initially released.

Instead with r600g when Intel has been switched off I get:
+ Usable desktop and video performance
+ HDMI works
- Always horrible 3d performance, worse than Intel (I test glxgears in fullscreen 1920x1200 and use Blender, usually not games)
- 3d is often too unstable for work (Kernel or Xorg crashes while using Blender), but I have seen nearly stable setups too. Mesa 7.10.x could be more stable.
- Computer runs hot and fans usually spin loudly (This probably happens on Win7 too. I sometimes try tweaking power_method and power_profile but they don't make enough difference)

Obviously most of the time I end up using Intel. But often after git pull I test r600g. Unfortunately I haven't seen it beat Intel yet.

Perhaps someone could benchmark numerous configurations with different non-standard options (Unity on/off, vsync on/off, etc.) to determine how much each helps/hurts and what the real best-case framerate is?

Well compiz is atleast on, i just can't deal with the unity desktop..

Originally Posted by utrrrongeeb

Your framerates seem to be increasing with the resolution -- is that usual, or a sign of an error? Your screen resolution is listed as 1280x1024 -- if that's the monitor's limit, would it cause inaccurate results from the higher-resolution tests?

If the results are all right, though -- 58% of Catalyst* at 2560x1600 in OpenArena!
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Usually when testing, 1280x1024 always seems to be greater fps then 800x600 in openarena, but something changed in mesa this last week..